Since the day
that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt I chose no city among
all the tribes of Israel to build an house in, that my name might be there;
neither chose I any man to be a ruler over my people Israel:

The LORD
therefore hath performed his word that he hath spoken: for I am risen up in the
room of David my father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as the LORD
promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

For Solomon had made a brazen scaffold of five cubits long, and five
cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court:
and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the
congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven.

Now
therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that
which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my
sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed to
their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me.

That thine eyes may be open upon this
house day and night, upon the place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest
put thy name there; to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward
this place.

Hearken
therefore unto the supplications of thy servant, and of thy people Israel,
which they shall make toward this place: hear thou from thy dwelling place,
even from heaven; and when thou hearest, forgive.

Then hear thou
from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by
recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by
giving him according to his righteousness.

Then hear thou from
heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when
thou hast taught them the good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain
upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.

If there be dearth in the
land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or
caterpillars; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land;
whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be:

Then what prayer or what supplication soever shall
be made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one shall know his
own sore and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house:

Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy
people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name's sake, and
thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they come and pray in this
house;

Then hear thou
from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, and do according to all that
the stranger calleth to thee for; that all people of the earth may know thy
name, and fear thee, as doth thy people Israel, and may know that this house
which I have built is called by thy name.

If they sin against thee, (for
there is no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver
them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land
far off or near;

Yet
if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and
turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned,
we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly;

If they return to thee with all their heart and with
all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them
captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and
toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built
for thy name: